Category: Great Moments In Socialism

Some Are More Equal Than Others

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Back of the bus Whitey.

National Post- Canadians have constitutional right to unequal treatment, new report argues

“Canadians have been sold a bill of goods,” Bruce Pardy, the author of the report and a Queen’s University law professor, told National Post by email. “Many of them think that they have a right to equal treatment under the law. They think that discrimination is illegal. But nothing could be further from the truth. In Canada, discrimination is lawful as long as it is committed against the right groups — and in particular against straight white men.

Thirsty Proletarians

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In another nation where the leaders routinely address each other as comrade, basic infrastructure continues to implode right on schedule.

Currently, 45% of municipalities in South Africa cannot provide the most basic information on their water supply, including monthly consumption figures.

The report showed that 277 water systems – nearly 30% of the total – are in a critical state requiring urgent intervention. This is a significant increase from 103 systems in 2014.

Atlas Shrugs Again

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If you want to make a start in avoiding the shutdown of an entire power grid, maybe government officials could stop referring to each other as comrade. Then there might be some light at the end of the tunnel.

The electricity went out Friday in Cuba, affecting the entire island’s population of 10 million after one of its main power plants failed, according to Cuba’s energy ministry.

On Thursday night, [the Cuban government] announced schools would close and most state workers would stay home Friday in an effort to conserve energy. But it wasn’t enough and by 11 a.m. Friday, Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric, the largest power plant, went offline causing a grid failure.

Best Medical System In The World

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Your doctor may be dumb as a post but at least he’s(she’s) not white(or Asian).

National Post- At TMU medical school, some students are more equal than others

Toronto Metropolitan University, will reserve 75 per cent of its seats for Indigenous, Black, and other “equity-deserving” groups including 2SLGBTQ+. These students will need an undergraduate GPA of only 3.3 on a 4-point scale, and maybe not even that; for comparison, the University of Toronto medical school’s average accepted GPA is 3.95. Able-bodied straight white students can’t apply for these seats. It’s TMU’s affirmative action school for doctors who can’t get in on their merits. Canada now has full-blown racial and gender discrimination. How did we get here? The Supreme Court of Canada is largely to blame.

Troubled Times on Canada’s Left Coast

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I’ve long said that I’m open to hearing about any alternative political system, as long as it doesn’t diminish the incentive to work hard. The moment I sense it does this, I’m out, because it’s doomed to failure.

The B.C. NDP Party has clearly never learned this simple lesson. The founder of Lululemon, Chip Wilson, recently wrote an op-ed about this:

The NDP’s hidden “wealth” taxes are so burdensome that these people, ready to risk again, don’t. The short-term tax on the successful kills the incentive for middle-class entrepreneurs in B.C.

If a flat tax for all were implemented, of the 30 failed entrepreneurs who are given the incentive to try again, five would succeed, creating businesses, employing thousands, and forming a strong tax base.

The NDP will, of course, find an academic — who has never run a business — to refute this.

Hardware Headaches

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With the marginal consumer now cutting back in sharp contrast to the heady days of the pandemic spending spree, we’re likely to see more of this in the future.

True Value, the hardware retailer based in Chicago, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and agreed to sell itself for $153 million to Do it Best Corp., the home improvement company based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, according to court filings.

 

The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire

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State of the Republic;

As of this September, federal, state and local governments in this country employed a record total of 23,421,000 individuals, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In other words, government payrolls were populated by more people than lived in the state of Florida or in any of 47 other states. Only California and Texas had populations that exceeded the number of people who work for government in this country.

Collective Farming

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Why are the Tories split on this issue? Do some of them actually think that the supply mismanaged dairy and poultry sectors should be allowed to hold the rest of the economy hostage?

This week, farming groups and former trade negotiators took turns trying to convince the upper chamber to either support or reject the Bloc’s private member’s bill to protect supply management from future trade negotiations.

The government voted in favour of the legislation last year, as did most Liberal MPs, the Bloc, the NDP and the Greens. The Conservatives were split on the vote.

 

Punishment Will Increase

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Until morale improves.

Blacklock’s- Feds Want 3% Irish Land Tax

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland yesterday said cabinet would like to adopt an Irish-style three percent annual federal tax on vacant lots.

“Such taxes would be intended to discourage speculative holding of land and making it more costly to keep land undeveloped,” the finance department wrote in a Consultation Paper. “Taxes could provide a source of revenue for various orders of government which could be used to fund the construction of more new homes,” it added.

Wise Words

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One of the less well-known economists of the Austrian School was Professor Antal Fekete who died in 2020. Fekete arguably had a much better grasp of monetary issues than many of his contemporaries. His works are still available on his website, and one in particular details why debt must necessarily grow exponentially in a fiat currency system.

Every year monetary authorities must create at least as much new money as needed to service outstanding debt, in order to keep the game of musical chairs going.

Governments have lost not only their option to reduce indebtedness but, more ominously, the option to balance their budgets. There is a new item in the budget that is never named, that is well-hidden, but that is increasing by leaps and bounds year after year: that part of government borrowing that is needed to provide cover for the increase of the monetary base.

The utterances of politicians about their resolve to eliminate the budget deficit is disingenuous – it cannot be done under the prevailing monetary regime on a net basis.

Great Success!

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Blacklock’s- Few Hear Of Pharmacare Act

Few Canadians know of cabinet’s pharmacare bill though cabinet has promoted it as groundbreaking, says in-house Privy Council Office polling.

“None were aware of any action from the federal government related to establishment of a national pharmacare program,” said the Privy Council report. Findings were drawn from focus groups nationwide. The Privy Council commissioned the questionnaires under an $814,741 contract with The Strategic Counsel, a Toronto pollster.

Today In Renaming All The Things

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Daily Sceptic- The Politicisation of Plants

The first step concerns the word caffra. It is a common suffix in some plants, such as Erythrina caffra. From now on caffra will be replaced by affra, so that Erythrina caffra will be known as Erythrina affra. This is because caffra is a bad word, alluding to an Arabic word for ‘infidel’ (which at some point was adopted as a racial term in South Africa), while affra is a good word, alluding to Africa. If that was the first step, then the second step is that the nomenclature session also decided that a committee will be created to consider the names of plants associated with controversial figures from the past: though this will only apply to plants named after 2026, and therefore not reach as far as renaming plants which were originally named for slave traders or despots.

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